Re: Privatised Government?

[p.edwards@its.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Edwards)]

> David McLoughlin wrote in message <36e2fa4a.13508139@news.iprolink.co.nz>...
> > Laurel Blume  wrote:
> >
> >>Travelling home late one night last week, I noticed what think was a VT
> >>Commodore with a small sticker on the front doors with `Swanston Trams'.
> >>
> >>Nothing unusual in that, of course, except that the car was carrying red
> >>government number plates.
> >>
> >>If the system has been privatised, why retain the govt plates?
> >
> >It hasn't been privatised yet. They are still going through the
> >tendering process.

Even so, part of the corporatization procedure (which seems to come before
privatization) means that the plates seem to get changed. There don't
appear to be any hard and fast rules on this though. There are still
several Yarra Valley Water vehicles with red plates (and they were
corporatized, what, three years ago?), and I notice now that marked police
cars have got the O and P series "standard" number plates on them.

Anyone know how this stuff works?

Paul